[Rhodes22-list] Bosun's Chair

[Arthur H. Czerwonky]

John,
You might want to bounce this off of Stan.  I think they are able to hold the mast top at dock level with a man's weight, then demo it's bouyancy by releasing the pressure.  
Art

-----Original Message-----
>From: John Lock <jlock at relevantarts.com>
>Sent: Aug 10, 2007 12:47 PM
>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Bosun's Chair
>
>At 11:17 AM 8/10/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>>All this talk of bosun's chairs has raised an interesting thought. IIRC
>>the R-22 has about 700 lbs of ballast a couple feet below the waterline.
>>The mast sticks up about 30 feet above the waterline. Might want to take
>>into consideration what your weight on the end of a 30 foot lever is
>>going to do to the center of gravity????
>
>Thought about that, but I'd heard others have done it, so it must not 
>be a big problem.  'Course I'll wait for calm wind and water to go up.
>
>Cheers!
>
>John Lock
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>s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
>Lake Sinclair, GA
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